A priest is a fun class to play . It has so many special abilities to master.The priest is best at what he/she wants to do. If you can master the priest, you can fight anyone and come out on top.

Steps

1

To start with your priest, you need to find a common goal. Are you working for the dark side, holy side or disciplined side? This choice will depend on a lot of what you can and can not accomplish in the future.

2

You need to concentrate on leveling and questing for you first ten to twenty levels as the priest is easily killed at low levels.

3

When you get to level ten, you must now start to work on your weapons and armor. The priest has naturally low armor but as you get further in the game, no one will want to approach you. AT 10, you also make your decision, holy, shadow or disciplined? Where do you spend your talent points, to become what?

4

At 40, you may want to change your talent tree.

5

Once you reach to 60+ join a raiding guild and do some raiding. With the addition of group-wide mana regen, both holy and shadow spec priests have usability in raids and instances. Discipline, for the most part, is still for pvp.

6

Not everyone wants to group for instances with a shadow priest because of their specialization in DPS over healing abilities. So, being a shadow priest at the lower levels (10-40) is recommended for leveling, unless playing a healer is your passion. While playing the higher levels (40-70) It comes down to what you what role you wish your priest to play. If you enjoy running instances/raiding, Shadow and Holy make great choices for their respective DPS and healing abilities, while if PvP is what you enjoy then Discipline is great for survivability (arguably making the best flag-bearers in the game), while Shadow can take down targets quickly by dealing large amounts of damage in a short period of time. Holy is also viable, however their role in PvP tends to fall to sticking a short distance from main battles and using low cast time spells such as flash heal, renew and PW:S.